Mancil Davis' Bio . . .
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Mancil
Davis is known worldwide as “The King of Aces”, for his PGA world record 51
holes in one. The native born Texan scored his first official hole in one at
age 11, and continued to find the hole throughout his amateur and professional
career.
A member
of the PGA of America since 1974, Davis played the tour briefly in 1975 and
1976, before focusing on a Club Professional career in 1977. Davis has served
as the Director of Golf at The Woodlands Country Club (former site of the PGA
Houston Open), the Trophy Club in Roanoke, TX (only course ever designed by Ben
Hogan), and The Resort at Squaw Creek in Lake Tahoe, CA.
A
feature article in People magazine in 1983 started the corporate and charity
golf outings career for Davis, who has since traveled throughout the world with
his “King of Aces” outings This unique addition to any golf event features the
opportunity for the golfers in the event to win $10,000 for an ace of their own,
or even $1,000,000 for an ace in the post round “Million Dollar ShootOut”.
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Some of
Davis’s hole in one highlights are:
- 51 official holes in
one (The PGA world record)
- 10 double eagles
(The world record)
- 8,673 combined
yards of holes in one
(over four and one half
miles)
- Career holes in
one average:
170 yards
- Has made a hole in
one with every club in the bag, except a putter, pitching wedge, or sand
wedge
- Longest hole in
one: 379
yards
- Shortest hole in
one: 124
yards
- 8 holes in one in a
single year
- 3 holes in one in a
single week
- Made at least one
hole in one per year between 1967 and 1987
- Has been featured in
Golf Digest, Golf, Sports Illustrated, People, Guinness World Book of
Records, and Ripley’s Believe It or Not
Catch Mancil each and every Monday evening (6:00-7:00PM Central) on his INSIDE
GOLF WITH MANCIL DAVIS radio program. Log into
www.ktwl.com.
Click here to read a one-on-one
interview with the King of Aces! |
